In the last twenty years, over 160 million Mario games have been sold. Topping
the list, more than 40 million copies of Super Mario Bros. were sold on the NES and
20.6 million copies of Super Mario World on SNES. However, because these games were bundled with
console hardware, their sales may not be fairly compared to other
games. To this day Super Mario Bros. 3 remains the best-selling video game of all time
never bundled with console hardware, having sold 17.28 million copies.